Semantics of the Probabilistic Typed Lambda Calculus

Semantics of the Probabilistic Typed Lambda Calculus
Author: Dirk Draheim
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2017-02-28
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 364255198X

This book takes a foundational approach to the semantics of probabilistic programming. It elaborates a rigorous Markov chain semantics for the probabilistic typed lambda calculus, which is the typed lambda calculus with recursion plus probabilistic choice. The book starts with a recapitulation of the basic mathematical tools needed throughout the book, in particular Markov chains, graph theory and domain theory, and also explores the topic of inductive definitions. It then defines the syntax and establishes the Markov chain semantics of the probabilistic lambda calculus and, furthermore, both a graph and a tree semantics. Based on that, it investigates the termination behavior of probabilistic programs. It introduces the notions of termination degree, bounded termination and path stoppability and investigates their mutual relationships. Lastly, it defines a denotational semantics of the probabilistic lambda calculus, based on continuous functions over probability distributions as domains. The work mostly appeals to researchers in theoretical computer science focusing on probabilistic programming, randomized algorithms, or programming language theory.

From Lambda Calculus to Cybersecurity Through Program Analysis

From Lambda Calculus to Cybersecurity Through Program Analysis
Author: Alessandra Di Pierro
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2020-02-14
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3030411036

This Festschrift is in honor of Chris Hankin, Professor at the Imperial College in London, UK, on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday. Chris Hankin is a Fellow of the Institute for Security Science and Technology and a Professor of Computing Science. His research is in cyber security, data analytics and semantics-based program analysis. He leads multidisciplinary projects focused on developing advanced visual analytics and providing better decision support to defend against cyber attacks. This Festschrift is a collection of scientific contributions related to the topics that have marked the research career of Professor Chris Hankin. The contributions have been written to honour Chris' career and on the occasion of his retirement.

Logical Foundations of Computer Science

Logical Foundations of Computer Science
Author: Sergei Artemov
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2017-12-22
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3319720562

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Symposium on Logical Foundations of Computer Science, LFCS 2018, held in Deerfield Beach, FL, USA, in January 2018. The 22 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. The scope of the Symposium is broad and includes constructive mathematics and type theory; homotopy type theory; logic, automata, and automatic structures; computability and randomness; logical foundations of programming; logical aspects of computational complexity; parameterized complexity; logic programming and constraints; automated deduction and interactive theorem proving; logical methods in protocol and program verification; logical methods in program specification and extraction; domain theory logics; logical foundations of database theory; equational logic and term rewriting; lambda andcombinatory calculi; categorical logic and topological semantics; linear logic; epistemic and temporal logics; intelligent and multiple-agent system logics; logics of proof and justification; non-monotonic reasoning; logic in game theory and social software; logic of hybrid systems; distributed system logics; mathematical fuzzy logic; system design logics; and other logics in computer science.

Theoretical Aspects of Computing – ICTAC 2017

Theoretical Aspects of Computing – ICTAC 2017
Author: Dang Van Hung
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2017-09-28
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3319677292

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing, ICTAC 2017, held in Hanoi, Vietnam, in October 2017. The 17 revised full papers presented together with three invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on logics; software components and concurrency; automata; SMT solvers and algorithms; and security.

Semantics of Probabilistic Computation and Logics

Semantics of Probabilistic Computation and Logics
Author: Dirk Draheim
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2016-05-09
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9783642551994

In its first part, the book analyses symbolic computation involving probabilism from scratch. The book establishes rigorous Markov Chain semantics for the typed lambda calculus with recursion and probabilistic choices. It exploits statistical distributions as domains and defines appropriate denotational semantics for the introduced lambda calculus. It proofs important correspondence theorems between the established operational and denotational semantics. In the second part, we review the power of inductive logics as the foundation for expert reasoning systems.

Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems

Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems
Author: Andreas Herzig
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2020-01-28
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3030399516

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems, FoIKS 2020, held in Dortmund, Germany, in February 2020. The 19 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions. The papers address various topics such as big data; database design; dynamics of information; information fusion; integrity and constraint management; intelligent agents; knowledge discovery and information retrieval; knowledge representation, reasoning and planning; logics in databases and AI; mathematical foundations; security in information and knowledge systems; semi-structured data and XML; social computing; the semantic web and knowledge management; and the world wide web.​

Future Data and Security Engineering

Future Data and Security Engineering
Author: Tran Khanh Dang
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2018-11-08
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3030031926

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Future Data and Security Engineering, FDSE 2018, held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in November 2018. The 28 revised full papers and 7 short papers presented together with two papers of keynote speeches were carefully reviewed and selected from 122 submissions. The selected papers are organized into the following topical headings: security and privacy engineering; authentication and access control; big data analytics and applications; advanced studies in machine learning; deep learning and applications; data analytics and recommendation systems; Internet of Things and applications; smart city: data analytics and security; and emerging data management systems and applications.

Database and Expert Systems Applications

Database and Expert Systems Applications
Author: Sven Hartmann
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 469
Release: 2020-09-13
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3030590038

The double volumes LNCS 12391-12392 constitutes the papers of the 31st International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2020, which will be held online in September 2020. The 38 full papers presented together with 20 short papers plus 1 keynote papers in these volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 190 submissions.

Formal Semantics in Modern Type Theories

Formal Semantics in Modern Type Theories
Author: Stergios Chatzikyriakidis
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2021-02-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1786301288

This book studies formal semantics in modern type theories (MTTsemantics). Compared with simple type theory, MTTs have much richer type structures and provide powerful means for adequate semantic constructions. This offers a serious alternative to the traditional settheoretical foundation for linguistic semantics and opens up a new avenue for developing formal semantics that is both model-theoretic and proof-theoretic, which was not available before the development of MTTsemantics. This book provides a reader-friendly and precise description of MTTs and offers a comprehensive introduction to MTT-semantics. It develops several case studies, such as adjectival modification and copredication, to exemplify the attractiveness of using MTTs for the study of linguistic meaning. It also examines existing proof assistant technology based on MTT-semantics for the verification of semantic constructions and reasoning in natural language. Several advanced topics are also briefly studied, including dependent event types, an application of dependent typing to event semantics.

Lambda Calculus with Types

Lambda Calculus with Types
Author: Henk Barendregt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 969
Release: 2013-06-20
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1107276349

This handbook with exercises reveals in formalisms, hitherto mainly used for hardware and software design and verification, unexpected mathematical beauty. The lambda calculus forms a prototype universal programming language, which in its untyped version is related to Lisp, and was treated in the first author's classic The Lambda Calculus (1984). The formalism has since been extended with types and used in functional programming (Haskell, Clean) and proof assistants (Coq, Isabelle, HOL), used in designing and verifying IT products and mathematical proofs. In this book, the authors focus on three classes of typing for lambda terms: simple types, recursive types and intersection types. It is in these three formalisms of terms and types that the unexpected mathematical beauty is revealed. The treatment is authoritative and comprehensive, complemented by an exhaustive bibliography, and numerous exercises are provided to deepen the readers' understanding and increase their confidence using types.